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Quality Inn owners want to split hotel

The unattached portion of the Quality Inn located on South Jefferson could become a separate hotel chain. Cookeville Planning Commission members will vote Monday to decide if the owners can move forward with the project.

Ben Wheeler | Herald-Citizen

Posted
Friday, April 19, 2019 11:39 am

BY BEN WHEELER

A preliminary plat request could lead to a new hotel to Cookeville.

The owners of the Quality Inn, at 970 S. Jefferson Ave., have requested approval from the Cookeville Planning Commission to split into two hotels.

The request, submitted by Bob Vick on behalf of Neil Patel and The Krishna Hospitality Partnership, is to develop an unattached portion of the Quality Inn into a separate hotel chain.

Planners had moved the item from last month's agenda to further study the plan, particularly its parking.

The hotel would reportedly need to develop additional parking spaces along the street, between the hotel and Pizza Hut off of Neal Street, in order to meet the required number of spaces required by code.

The unnamed street leading to the hotel will serve as a permanent vehicular easement. Signage would be required on-premise and would not be allowed to be posted on South Jefferson Avenue or Neal Street.

However, the street is not incorporated by the city and is currently below city standards.

"This private street, at one point, was meant to be a public street," said James Mills, planning director. "Nobody ever followed through with that. It has 50 feet of right-of-way, it has a lot of the characteristics of the street but no one ever went through and made it a public street."

According to the planning department, when the mall was being constructed along Neal Street, the unnamed street was supposed to be called Mall Avenue.

If city planners were to approve the request, the street, from the entrance to the hotel to the corner of Neal Street, would need to be brought up to standards by the owners.

The planning commission will consider approval of the preliminary plat at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Cookeville City Hall on Broad Street.